God in the Good

We all have people around us who commit malfeasance with lot of requiescence and comfort. They practice impropriety seamlessly without any whit of contrition. Such people are sure that they will get away easily or they simply are sure that no one is watching them. Is that true. Are they impervious to nature’s justice? Are people who eat up share of others or hurt others to get benefited safe as they believe? Or they are simply ignoring a serious warning that little voice inside them keeps repeating?

We know that if we are driving a car with closed eyes, a crash is certain. We know that giving someone a blank signed check could lead to fraud. We also know that touching bare electric wire will give us shock. We know all these and we do the best act to ensure no mistakes are committed by us. We take evasive action by not jumping into a Lake unless we are trained swimmer. We do all these things to ensure we do not fall into peril. We do so because we are sure of the repercussions. We have seen innumerable times that people who do not take care, face outcomes so we take full care.

But what about things that we know we can get away with. How serious we remain when we damage property of an owner being a tenant. Do we care that if we leave a bulb broken or floor cracked? Do we reach out to the owner and offer compensation? No we do not.

So we are sure that the broken bulb and cracked floor piece will not be noticed by the owner. So did that go unnoticed? Is there any authority above us who notices such impropriety? Yes, there is.

The incidence of Mahabharat keeps warning me all the times which we all know as well. Sudama the friend of Krishna hid a handful of chana from his friend. Krishna remained famished while Sudama ate up share of both.

We all know what happened then. Sudama had to live life under poverty for years. When his punishment was over, he got to meet Krishna again who made him rich. This small story teaches us so much. A handful of chana, when stolen, can lead you to years of poverty, what a bribe taken by an officer a few thousands will give you. And you can imagine what will the magnitude of punishment when you do unfair transactions or cheat others with whopping amounts. People capture properties of others, eat up rent of owners, or owners do not return security charges, or petrol pump owners cheat customers with less fuel, and the list goes on and on.

I bet there is no need for you to read Gita or Mahabharat to understand this simple logic of life. You can see examples around of people who accumulated wealth by wrongdoings. Such people at some point of time lose everything. They might have their looted money preserved, but their family suffers major setbacks. Someone loses son in young age, other get physically damaged for life, and so on.

Money can buy so much in life but only money earned by honesty will get you amity and comfort. So if you earn money by impropriety, please accept that you will have to return much more in much bigger proportions. And if you have been cheated, the God will get you the lost money with bigger proportion sometime back in life.

Everything good that you do insures you for happiness and prosperity and everything bad you do will do the reverse. There’s God in Good and Bigger Accumulated Darkness in Bad.